As drought slashes rice harvest, 900,000 face hunger in Sri Lanka

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Submitted by lalit on Tue, 2017-03-14 15:55

The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into "acute food insecurity", the World Food Programme (WFP) says.

thesaurus: 
Natural Disasters
Droughts
Food Security
Rice
Agriculture
Sri Lanka
South Asia
World Food Programme (WFP)
Main Topic: 
Natural Disasters
Name of the Newspaper: 
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
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Clipping Type: 
DNB
External URL: 
http://news.trust.org/item/20170313123824-flvhl/
Publication Date: 
14/03/2017